@Grow Up: Well put! I just want to add that nobody is forcing you to watch television in the first place. It is not like you HAVE to watch TV in order to live. Don’t like what’s on? Don’t watch. This reminds me of an episode of South Park where all the kids are worried they will get their arses kicked because they illegally acquired samurai weapons but in the end nobody cared. Why? Because Cartman showed his weiner in public. To quote: “I guess parents don’t give a crap about violence if there’s sex things to worry about.”

As Haelian mentioned earlier in this thread, sex is a natural part of life. In fact, every one of us in this discussion forum came into existence as a result of a sexual act sometime in the past (perhaps not by your parents but somewhere back in the lineage two people definitely got their groove on). All species (including human) have an innate, programmed desire to procreate. Procreation is necessary to perpetuate the species. If people stopped having sex, people would go extinct. Why then is perhaps the most natural human act considered shameful and something that must be confined to the most private and secluded portions of life?

Third, I will take on the “protect the children” argument. I have a sad but true fact about parenting to everyone out there with children and everyone considering children: you can’t be with your kid 24/7/365 ever. Period. I will repeat that in case you did not hear me the first time: you cannot be with your kid every hour of every day of every year. At some time you have to work, you have to sleep, your kid will grow up. These are facts of life. Now, because you cannot be everywhere with your kid at every time, you also cannot control everything that the kid will be exposed to. And therein lies the rub. Since you cannot be everywhere with your child at all times, and therefore cannot control everything that your child will see, how then can you make sure that you have done your job as a responsible parent and ensure that your child will grow up “properly” with “good morals”? If you answered, “well, this is where we need decency and other laws to ensure that everything on TV is appropriate for all”, you answered incorrectly since no governmental body can EVER speak for EVERY person under its jurisdiction and therefore what is labeled as “inappropriate” by the government standards body, may be deemed perfectly appropriate for the next door neighbors’ children and therefore the government has just trampled their freedom so that Billy’s mom can sleep at night knowing that Billy can’t see bare bottoms or nasty Hollywood explosions. Instead of setting hard and fast rules of “appropriateness”, parents should just try talking to their kids. The fact of the matter is that kids are eventually going to learn “the facts of life” including the “birds and the bees.” Parents should then just talk to their children about these things in an open supportive manner rather than pushing them aside and out of view. But, I forgot, that actually requires work…

Finally, I want to once and for all quash the argument that the USA is somehow now (and was founded as) a “Christian nation”. inside the two foundational documents of the United States (the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence) there is not a single reference to the name Jesus Christ to explicitly to God even. The Declaration of Independence mentions a “Creator” and “Nature’s God” but one cannot infer that Creator == God in the sense of the biblical omniscient and omnipotent God by these words alone since they are used in very generic context. In fact, if one reads through the entire text of the Constitution, one will not find so much as a mention of the word “God” or anything even resembling a reference. There are two places however that seem to clearly contradict the notion of “Christian nation” within the text of the Constitution:

[Article VI, Clause 3:] “The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.“

[Amendment I:] “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”

In closing, since America is NOT a “Christian nation” by its own creation, why then should Christian morality be forced on its citizenry and constrain our available choices? If anything, we are founded on the ideal that every person is free to make their own choices for themselves and not to be told or limited in what those choices are. Even in the case of children, parents should trust that each child will make the best decision they can rather than control the menu of choices available to them.

Too all of you indignant folks who replied to the obvious troll that threw in the word ‘Christian’ to bait you…

You fool…..

Free thinking here? Non-judgemental here?

Then why is it when someone supports the RIAA or MPAA or patent enforcement, they get jumped on, called a shill or worse?

Face it, you are for free speech as long as that speech fits your own personal agenda.